The Contents of Defining Documents in American History: Postwar 1940s (1945–1950)
Publisher's Note
Editor's Introduction
Contributors
War Crimes and Tribunals
Executive Order 9547
Nuremberg Code
Establishment and Proceedings of the Tribunal
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
The New World Order
Preamble of the UN Charter
Potsdam Agreement
Statement by General MacArthur on the Occupation of Japan
No Sacrificing of Basic Principles for Expediency
Complete Integration of Military Operations
The World Needs the Tonic of Universal Truth
No Country Fears a Strong America
“The Sources of Soviet Conduct”
Truman Statement on Immigration into Palestine
Truman Doctrine Speech
Speech on the Marshall Plan
Vyshinsky's Speech to the UN General Assembly
NATO Treaty
Memorandum on Lifting the Soviet Blockade
American Alliances
Act of Chapultepec
Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance
Pact of Bogota
Address by Secretary Acheson, September 19, 1949
Atomic Policy
Atomic Energy and International Trade
Atomic Explosion in the USSR
International Control of Atomic Energy
The Red Scare
Executive Order 9835
Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Ronald Reagan's Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Testimony Regarding Communist Investigations
Domestic Affairs
A Reason Must Be Substituted for Force
Twenty-Second Amendment
Taft-Hartley Act
Practical Peacetime Applications
Truman's State of the Union Speech
The Rise of Civil Rights
Mendez et al. v. Westminister School District of Orange County et al.
Morgan v. Virginia (1946)
Report of the President's Committee on Civil Rights
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
Executive Order 9981
Southern Legislators Protest Proposed Anti-lynching Legislation
Appendixes
Chronological List
Web Resources
Bibliography
